Word: milles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chicago, hundreds of unemployed young blacks mill on the street where Albirtha Young, 29, lives with her welfare-supported family?twelve people in all. "I didn't want to pick cotton all my life," she says, explaining her move to the city's West Side from Mississippi nine years ago. She brought two children North, now has four more?along with two left to her care by an aunt, plus two younger brothers and a sister to tend. The extended family lives in a two-story frame house bracketed by vacant lots, gutted houses and apartment buildings. Albirtha...
...industry governed by a no-strike pact? ENA permits strikes over local issues, like job assignments, and some of these are involved in the ore walkout. But the big issue is a miners' demand that they collect incentive payments for increased production, as 85,000 workers in steel mills do. To U.S.W. officials in Pittsburgh, who gave their permission for locals at twelve mines to strike, whether any particular mill or mine grants incentive payments is a local issue, unrelated to the general wage level set by national contracts negotiated under ENA. To the companies, that argument is sophistry...
...Communications Tycoon Kerry Packer, 39, who lured away the game's brightest lights with promises of filthy lucre. That is a rare commodity in cricket, where even playing for England, a superstar can aspire to no more than $35,000 a year and a run-of-the-mill professional only $6,600 a season. Packer offered far better salaries and planned a televised international all-star series matching "the rest of the world" against a formidable Australian side...
...rise at the high May annual rate-7.4%. The main factor: higher price tags on processed foods such as dairy items and canned goods. Further dimming prospects for price relief, U.S. Steel, the industry leader, unexpectedly announced last week that it would raise prices on structural shapes and tin mill products by 6% to 7% effective Sept. 4. In addition, the House last week followed the Senate's lead and approved a measure raising the wheat support price for farmers from $2.47 to $2.90 per bu. The move would add at least $470 million to the cost...
...Raging Bull, a film about Fighter Jake La Motta to be shot next year. For The Deer Hunter, the story of a friendship among five steelworkers that is interrupted by the Viet Nam War, he spent six weeks tramping about in the Ohio River Valley, talking with mill hands and recording their speech patterns, drinking with them in bars and eating dinner in their homes. If it were possible, De Niro would probably arrange to be born and raised in the region...